Editor’s note: Secretary Wilbur Ross identifies an important and optimistic economic data point. Worker compensation as a share of company costs has hit the highest level since 2009. There is a significant body of evidence showing that the U.S. economy is strong. The U.S. economy has added millions of jobs, and even long-neglected sectors like…
Editor’s note: Matt Klein of Barrons doubles down in supporting the Baldwin/Hawley market access charge bill that CPA helped generate. In last week’s column I discussed an intriguing idea to have the Federal Reserve move the U.S. current account into balance by levying a “market access charge” on foreign purchases of American assets. Some…
Editor’s note: CPA’s work on the Baldwin/Hawley exchange rate management bill is recognized in the Financial Times. The novelty of an interventionist approach gains cross-party traction on Capitol Hill [Brendan Greeley | August 19, 2019 | Financial Times] Washington is beginning to sidle away from its two-decade consensus in favour of a strong dollar. Donald Trump’s…
Editors’ note: Very important interview. Key points. Mohammed El–Erian, chief economic advisor to Alliance, says the financial economy is overexposed to the world as we deglobalize. But the US real economy is, relative to finance, insulated from the rest of the world. El–Erian makes these points at the beginning of the 7 minute clip. 1. US consumer…
Editor’s note: Reshoring to the United States from China continues. A U.S. cabinet maker will move its production to Lancaster County from China and establish its headquarters in a former Duracell building in that county. [Ken Elkins | August 15, 2019 | Biz Journals] Adornus Cabinetry, which makes stylish frameless cabinets and other products for…
Editors note: Anyone who believes Huawei is a legitimate player on the world stage is uninformed. Employees embedded with cybersecurity forces in Uganda and Zambia intercepted encrypted communications and used cell data to track opponents, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation [Joe Parkinson, Nicholas Bariyo and Josh Chin | August 15, 2019 | WSJ] KAMPALA, Uganda—Huawei…
After the year 2000, US manufacturing employment experienced a rapid, unprecedented decline with the loss of some six million manufacturing jobs. Many commentators have described this as a normal, even healthy evolution, with workers allegedly moving into “jobs of the future” in the service sector. After the year 2000, US manufacturing employment experienced a rapid,…
Editor’s note: The Chinese are working hard to circumvent the tariffs by trans-shipping through other countries. Wilbur Ross and the Department of Commerce are responding. The Commerce Department on Wednesday announced it is self-initiating a first-of-its-kind probe of whether corrosion-resistant steel products from several countries is circumventing U.S. antidumping and countervailing duties. [August 14, 2019…
Excerpt: The study states that the tariff would stimulate the economy through two channels. The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) released updated study results in July showing that a permanent across-the-board 25 percent tariff (PATB-25) on all imports from China would stimulate GDP growth and jobs in the U.S. economy. [David Lam | August 14,…
Editors note: Roger Simmermaker is a CPA member. The old Washington consensus on free trade was bipartisan. We are forging a new bipartisan Washington consensus on a trade strategy that wins the global competition for good jobs and industries. Exclusive: Roger Simmermaker explains manufacturing stimulates economic growth [Roger Simmermaker | August 10, 2019 | WND]…